Bee Urban
Bee Urban[a] is a company whose business idea is to place bee hives in urban environments for a fee - the bees help with pollination of plants in the city, thus giving us all a better environment. Just like every other hive, these hives produce honey, and each year it is harvested. I went to Bee Urban's honey processing center (for want of a better word) to picking up some urban honey. I got the honey, a tour of the facility, and also ended up adopting 50 bees on the spot![b].
Bee Urban's founders, Karolina Lisslö and Josefina Oddsberg, also won the runner-up prize in this year's Beautiful Business Award[c].
A frame from a bee hive. The cells are covered by wax ("capping"), which is scraped off before it is "slung" out in an extractor.
Josefina Oddsberg shows the un-slung frame from a bee hive.
The honey-making room. The extractor is the steel cylinder in the far left corner. The extractor works as a centrifuge[d] and since it doesn't destroy the cells in the frames, they can be re-used by the bees.
Here, in the basement of Stora Skuggans Wärdshus, is where the honey is processed by Bee Urban.
Two jars of honey, in an urban setting this time. The blurred shapes of Hötorgshusen can be seen in the background.
